Re: [Lingo] Grizzles (Was: Re: jgram.org - Japanese grammar database)

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 05/09/06, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:

> Hrrm, that was pretty tortured syntax--sigh, and I'm a native English
> speaker.  (Godwin, don't bother replying that no I'm not, I'm an
> American---these UK people and their sense of superiority.)  :)

Which reminds me, of course, of a snatch of one of my favourite songs
in "My Fair Lady"[1], "Why Can't the English... Speak?"[2]:

One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
Oh, why can't the English learn to set
A good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely
disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!

-Josh

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058385/
[2] http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/myfairlady/whycanttheenglish.htm